From 265db07b35e3e9b4e3bbc8e69b9a610592fdf7e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "gergely.erdelyi" <gergely.erdelyi@fccdda4b-c33c-0410-84de-61e1e3e5f415>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:54:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added type definition binary_output_or_none to accept void *
 output buffers with size

---
 swig/typeconv.i | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/swig/typeconv.i b/swig/typeconv.i
index f054895..b09c7de 100644
--- a/swig/typeconv.i
+++ b/swig/typeconv.i
@@ -80,6 +80,38 @@
 }
 %enddef
 
+%define %binary_output_or_none(TYPEMAP, SIZE)
+%typemap (default) SIZE {
+	$1 = MAXSPECSIZE;
+}
+%typemap(in,numinputs=0) (TYPEMAP, SIZE) {
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+   $1 = (char *) new char[MAXSPECSIZE+1];
+#else
+   $1 = (char *) malloc(MAXSPECSIZE+1);
+#endif
+}
+%typemap(out) ssize_t {
+    /* REMOVING ssize_t return value in $symname */
+}
+%typemap(argout) (TYPEMAP,SIZE) {
+   if (result > 0)
+   {
+     resultobj = PyString_FromStringAndSize((char *)$1, result);
+   }
+   else
+   {
+     Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+	 resultobj = Py_None;
+   }
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+   delete [] (char *)$1;
+#else
+   free((char *)$1);
+#endif
+}
+%enddef
+
 // Check that the argument is a callable Python object
 %typemap(in) PyObject *pyfunc {
   if (!PyCallable_Check($input)) {